The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has announced through Truth, his social network, which plans to hold talks on Monday with the presidents of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, hoping to reach a high fire in the Ukraine War. Trump’s announcement occurs after the Fiasco of Istanbul’s conversations between Ukraine and Russia, which barely yielded a prisoner exchange agreement – one of the most numerous since the war began, a thousand people for side – and a vague commitment of the delegations to meet again.
“On Monday at 10:00 in the morning I will talk on the phone with President Vladimir Putin de Russia. The themes of the conversation will be to end the ‘killing’ that is killing, on average, more than 5,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week, and trade,” Trump written, with that false data that reiterates again and again as if it were real.
“Next, I will talk to President Zelenski of Ukraine and, later, with President Zelenski (sic) and several NATO members. I hope it is a productive day, that a fire is reached and that this violent war, a war that should never have occurred, comes to an end. God bless us all!” He added, in a message written completely in capital letters.
The Republican said in campaign that he would be able to end the Ukraine War in 24 hours (or even before taking possession, as he said on occasion). Reality has shown that the task was not so simple, which has caused a growing frustration in the US president, who has had alternatively holding the leaders of the two countries in conflict for the lack of progress. Trump tries to promote a high 30 -day fire that serves as the first step towards a peace agreement. The Kremlin has so far opposed the truce and offered Istanbul’s conversations as an alternative to Western pressure.
Rubio’s call
Two days before the call between Trump and Putin, the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, has spoken on Saturday with the Russian Foreign Minister, Serguéi Lavrov, as reported by the State Department.
“The Rubio Secretary has welcomed the prison exchange agreement achieved during the conversations between Ukraine and Russia held on May 16 in Istanbul and has transmitted the firm message of President Trump: the United States is committed to the final purpose of the war between Russia and Ukraine,” says the State Department in the summary of the call.
“The integral peace plan proposed by the United States is the best way to move forward. The secretary emphasized the call of President Trump to a high immediate fire and at the end of violence,” he adds.
The spokeswoman for the State Department, Tammy Bruce, did not refer to that summary to whether in the conversation he had agreed to carry out Monday’s call between the two presidents.
Trump hinted that he was willing to go to Istanbul to the conversations between Russia and Ukraine if Putin did, but he sent a second level delegation. The president of the United States takes almost useless contacts that do not imply him and the Russian president. “Nothing will happen until he and I can see each other,” he said on Wednesday.
In fact, events have shown the minimum progress derived from the first peace conversations in three years between Ukraine and Russia. Hours after Istanbul’s negotiations, a Russian drone impacted on Saturday against a bus that evacuated civilians from an area of the front in the northeastern region of Sumy, in Ukraine, causing the death of nine people, according to official Ukraine sources.
Zelenski described the attack as “deliberate murder of civilians” and added in a message posted in the Telegram application that “the Russians could not ignore what type of vehicle were attacking.” The president of Ukraine lamented the lost opportunity in the peace of peace on Friday and said that his country “has been proposing this for a long time: a high total and unconditional fire to save lives.” “Russia only retains the ability to continue killing,” he added.
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